Interoperability of model-driven web engineering approaches
Attila Adamkó, Lajos Kollár · University of Debrecen Electronic Archive (University of Debrecen) · 2011
Model-driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches provide me thodologies and tools for both the design and the development of most kinds of Web applications. They address different concerns of Web applications by using separate models (e.g., structural, navigational, presentational) which are transformed into Web page skeletons by model compilers. These methods are more or less applicable for data-driven Web applicat ions but with the growing complexity of Web systems (Web workflow systems, e-c ommerce, egovernment, etc.), they need to address new requirements, as well. To answer these new challenges, new concerns are needed (for example, process models, etc.). However, this requires a lightweight, extensible, loosely coupled set of models for designing applications because not all kinds of Web applications need every concern. In this paper, an approach for the interoperability of (some) existing methodologies based on metamodeling, model transformations and model weaving will be introduced. This approach allows the MDWE methodologies to be extended in a consistent manner where new model kinds are separated and weaved together with the classical models that each approach supports.